Governor NN Vohra has requested Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to declare the historic 84-km-long Mughal Road, connecting Shopian in the Kashmir valley with Bafliaz in Poonch district of the Jammu region, as a national highway. The Governor has also requested the Union Minister to approve construction of an 8-km-long Chattapani-Zaznar tunnel to make the Mughal Road an all-weather link. In a letter, the Governor has conveyed that the road has several avalanche-prone locations near Pir Ki Gali and that a considerable portion of it remains…
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